Benedict XVI

                                                                                                                    Supreme Pontiff

                              Notification to the Pope

Your Holiness,

the Bishops’ Synod of the UOGCC has elaborated a draft pastoral letter for You. For Your part, You only need to accept it as Your own, or modify it if necessary. We understand Your difficult situation. We pray for You, but we are deeply hurt by Your decision to beatify the apostate Pope John Paul II and to celebrate the tragic anniversary of the meeting in Assisi which has caused total decay of the Church. With great pain we have to inform You that unless You cancel beatification of John Paul II, our Synod will be obliged before the whole Church to promulgate Your apostasy and consequently Your self-excommunication from the Church, as well as excommunication of Pope John Paul II.

We pray for You, that You may make a gesture of repentance and set an example to the whole Church. Without repentance the Church is no Church and without repentance no one can be saved, neither we nor You, Your Holiness!

The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church, but if You allow them to prevail against You, You will no longer belong to the Church. We beseech You: make a concrete step of faith. There is still time!

        Praying for You,

               Bishops of the Ukrainian orthodox Greek-Catholic Church

                                                   + Elias OSBMr

                                                   + Samuel OSBMr

                                                   + Markian OSBMr

                                                   + Methodius OSBMr

                                                                                         Lvov (Ukraine), 3rd March 2011

Cc:

- Representatives of Christian Churches

- Presidents of EU member states

Address: Synod of the UOGCC, 3 Sosnova St., Lvov - Bryukhovychi, 79491, Ukraine

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